"...after a few days at the desk, telling……" — Anne Lamott
"...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable as bathing a cat."
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489 Quotes by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott has 489 quotes on this site.
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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to…
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that…
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The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good…
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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the…
— Erma Bombeck
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I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that…
— Gloria Steinem
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I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people.…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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Dealing with the media is more difficult that bathing a leper
— Mother Teresa
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The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few…
— Raymond Chandler
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The Jake Gyllenhaal workout planstarts with growing long, long hairgorgeous greasy locks and then washing every day.Wash, shampoo, then condition.…
— Jake Gyllenhaal
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I don't normally do shoots in bikinis - I'm just not that kind of girl. But for 'Maxim' I was…
— Krysten Ritter
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I don’t think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.
— Deborah Kerr
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I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and…
— Rosanna Arquette
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